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James West

“One of my favorite class projects is having the students recreate a scene from a movie or TV show. I also assign a BTS crew to make a documentary of the process. Besides being fun, this creates many valuable real-world challenges for the students to encounter as they leap into the complexities of visual storytelling.”

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    DANIEL MARTINICO United States, 2012

    Slamdance, the upstart rival of Sundance, celebrates the cutting edge cinema “indie” used to mean, and Daniel Martinico’s caustically funny and forlorn comic tragedy truly epitomizes its spirit. With its verité style, this madcap dive into the world of acting is nightmarish and captivating at once.

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